Ramtin Naimi

That's

low quality art by great artists where they just wanted to have a home filled with art by recognizable artists' names, but nothing that in their collection is something that a real collector would say is truly great.

I think in the art world, it's very definitive examples of what that artist is known for.

Something that you could look at and basically say, this is exactly what the artist was trying to get across in his message.

And it came through very clearly in this painting or the sculpture.

Oftentimes, you'll see a painting by an artist and you'll have to do a double take to realize which artist actually painted it.

There are certain paintings that you look at by an artist and it's so obvious that it was painted by that artist.

Within the first second of looking at it, you know who painted it.

That's obviously a really good indication.

A lot of it is just frame of reference.

You don't actually appreciate what is a great example until you've seen tons of examples.

It's a phrase that Obitz always talks about, frame of reference.

The same thing with the more companies you meet, the easier it gets to discern what the better companies are.

The more art you look at and the more art you look at by a specific artist, the easier it becomes to identify what a great example of that artist is.

Certain things you look at, you're like, well, this looks like one of their paintings, but it looks like a messy version of one of their paintings.

Or this looks like a painting that they started working on and they realized it wasn't going in the right direction.

So they kind of half-assed the rest of it versus this is something they nailed and they know they nailed it.

A lot of that just has to do with training your own eye and looking at a lot.

Talk about the role of status in the art world, both for collectors, for galleries, for artists.

So that's a real thing.